Lit Hub Daily: May 1, 2025

TODAY: In 1923, Joseph Heller is born.  

• Charlotte Beradt connected nan psychological effects of totalitarianism and how Nazi Germany perfected nan creation of fear. | Lit Hub History
• Dan Reiter dives into the history of surf literature: “One of nan champion arguments for nan legitimacy of nan genre is that surfing has its ain idiosyncratic language, a patois, and afloat inhabits its ain universe.” | Lit Hub Sports
• “If Twain belongs to anyone now, it’s nan writers making mischief successful nan structures he near behind.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
• Gerald Early traces nan role of shot successful Black communities successful Reconstruction-era America. | Lit Hub Sports
• Lauren Haddad sings nan praises of Twin Peaks, television’s balanced of a damn good cup of coffee. | Lit Hub TV

• “To norm arsenic a Caesar was to guidelines arsenic an character upon nan awesome shape of nan world.” Tom Holland examines the legacies of ancient Rome’s astir celebrated emperors. | Lit Hub History
• “Peppa Ryan swiveled astir for nan 3rd time, looking for something, anything, familiar.” Read from Marcia Butler’s caller novel, Dear Virginia, Wait for Me. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Zorimar Rivera Montes meditates connected resilience, exhaustion, and Puerto Rican poetics. | Public Books
• Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses family history, otherness, and nan first 100 days of nan 2nd Trump administration. | Democracy Now!
• Incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon connected the existent costs of existent crime to prisoners. | Vulture
• “What’s undeniable is that 4chan helped shape nan contented ecosystem arsenic we cognize it.” Kyle Chayka connected nan life, death, and disastrous bequest of nan infamous imageboard. | The New Yorker
• Apparently, parents don’t for illustration reading pinch their kids? Weird! | The Guardian
• “It is nan daily, diaristic churn that gives her unloosed first caller nan consciousness of a afloat textured fictional world.” Anne Enright examines nan narration betwixt Helen Garner’s fabrication and her diaries. | London Review of Books

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